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Monday, December 19, 2011

Pterodactyl Sightings Improve

I have posted on and also reviewed
individual sightings that appeared to be some type of pterosaur.In fact there seems to be a wealth of types
and indicated within that family description.Here are some of the scant items so far available on the subject.It is not well organized yet but reports are
beginning to show up and we even have a convincing picture to look at.

Two observations.Firstly, although seen in daylight, it is a
nocturnal animal.Secondly it is able to
produce managed bioluminescence.This is
a pretty extraordinary creature that really does not overlap our own ecological
niche at all.

I want to make a conjecture.Since it lacks fur or feathers, it is able to
easily slip into the water and capture fish for its food and then just as
easily fly out of the water to return to its roost and young.In this way it avoids feeding of land based
prey.

Bioluminescence allows it to see
its own kind in the air and also in the sea.

Again this is all different from
our expectations but certainly explains the actual rareness of human
observation.As the material makes
clear, the Ropen is clearly well established in Papua New Guinea which is part of
the surviving Sahul continent that harbored remnants of the age of Dinosaurs.Yet a surviving population would have easily
spread out globally and also speciated.

A recent report was clearly a
North American report and again observed bioluminescence and the tell tale
shape of the creature..It will take
many more sightings before most observers will come forward and tell their
stories.

What comes to mind when you read "dinosaur?" Probably
"extinct" or "extinction."
What about the word "ropen?"
Until 2007, when the Sci-Fi Channel gave us the Ropen episode ofDestination
Truth, most Americans would think "jump rope'in" or "cowboy
rope'n a steer." But gradually Americans are coming to learn about a
strange flying creature that is said to live in Papua New Guinea. How strange? Try
"giant long-tailed pterosaur."

The ropen is described in ways that actually lead to two words:
"dragon" and "pterosaur," depending on culture and
taste. But notice the word noticeably absent: "extinct."

Several Americans searched for the elusive creature; important expeditions
were in 2002, 2004 (two), and 2006. But the Sci-Fi Destination Truth expedition
of 2007 introduced the word "ropen" to many thousands of
American T.V. viewers.

Live pterosaurs! But it gets even stranger. Reports starting coming in from
North America, and some of the Americans who explored Papua New Guinea, in 2004, searching for ropens,
began searching for them in the United States. In at least two of
the West Coast states, one of the locations became extremely secret.
Nevertheless, according to one press
release, one of the living-pterosaur cryptozoologists has estimated that at
least 1400 Americans have seen a living pterosaur between early-1980 and the
end of 2008. Most of those who have given their reports remain anonymous.

But not everything is secret. According to a new nonfiction book "Live Pterosaurs
in America," (by Jonathan Whitcomb), Scott Norman stayed up one night
and saw a pterosaur-like animal that "had an 8-10 foot wingspan; the wings
were bat-like . . . the neck about 1-2 feet in length, the head was about four
feet in length, and the head . . . has a crest that was about 2 feet in
length." With a long neck, a long head, a head crest, and an 8-10 foot
wingspan, it was no bat. And it was not in Papua
New Guinea but in the Western United
States.

Pterosaurs Alive, Not Extinct

Part of the problem is the breadth of the belief in absolute extinction of all
species of pterosaurs. That means that nobody, in a "developed
country," can easily report a sighting of an apparent pterosaur, even
if that species is not extinct but simply rare. Anyone reporting a live
pterosaur is subject to being not just doubted: A person's mental health can
easily be brought into question. Eyewitnesses can be interviewed, however, by
cryptozoologists who specialize in this field of cryptozoology: Jonathan Whitcomb
and Garth Guessman (of Southern California) or Phillip O'Donnell (of Oregon). Interesting to
note, those who have interviewed eyewitnesses in "primitive" cultures
find no such problems interviewing eyewitnesses or finding those who have seen
an apparent pterosaur. In Papua
New Guinea, natives have no fear about what
their neighbors will think about their mental stability, so they freely report
what they have seen.

Ropen's territory is situated on the island of New Guinea and its
neighbors, but pterosaurs have been seen in the Americas and Africa, especially
in rainforest regions.

Unique Talent:

Ropen seems to have the power to be bioluminescent, able to naturally
glow in the dark. Bioluminescense occurs in fungi, bacteria, and animals, but
the only known bioluminescent land animals are invertebrates and the only known
glowing vertebrates are aquatic. If the ropen exists, that would make it the
only known land vertebrate that's capable of glowing! But how and why? One
possibility is it shares a symbiotic relationship with a type of plant or more
likely fungi, but that's unlikely because it is said ropen can control its
glow. That means that it's like a fish in a way. If it could control the
glow, it would need a symbiotic relationship with light producing bacteria
contained inside its body or it has light producing cells called photocytes.

Escaping
the KT event:

The KT event is the famous mass extinction 65 million years ago that
took out the dinosaurs and (supposively) the pterosaurs. The only large animals
to survive lived deep underwater. The only land animals to survive could only
grow to the size of a cat. During that extiction, birds and mammals were
probably small oppurtunists as the fossils suggest. The theory of the meteor
means most of the plants died because the sun was blocked out. The small
nocturnal mammals were better suited for such an environment then the large
diurnal (day-time) dinosaurs.

My theory is that there were small pterosaurs as well. The fossil record can't
tell us everything. For one thing, certain fossils could be destroyed. It is
possible that small pterosaurs dwelled during the Cretaceous era with the birds
and their larger cousins. To add, fossils can't tell us much about soft organs
and nothing about exact behavior, so it is possible that somewhere along the
line of pterosaur evolution, there could have been a light producing mutation
that faired well during the dark end of the Mesozoic era.

Ropen sightings:

Ropen, aka the duah, is usually only seen as a light in the night sky,
but they have been seen for hundreds of years. It took World War 2's end to
bring the ropen to the Wesstern world. A small group of soldiers saw a ropen
(meaning demon flyer) on the ground, before it took off, circled above them,
and left. A pilot estemated its wingspan to be 20 feet long. They said it had a
beak, a crest, a dark-grey body, and a long neck. Maps dating 1565 has two
images of ropen-like creatures, but with a major difference. The images are
described to be more fish-like than the bird or bat-like creatures we know
pterosaurs to be. They were sea monsters rather than the reported airborn
creatures known to the natives. It is said they have been seen hunting humans
and scavenging human remains at buriels and funerals.

Ropen's African Cousin: Kongamato

Pterosaurs have been seen across the world, but few are more famous
than the Ropen of New Guinea
and Kongamato of central Africa. Kongamato
means overwhelmer of boats because of how it has been known to attack native
canoes. Kongamato is often described as a bright red pteranadon of some kind.
Many sightings have been situated in the Jiundu swamp in Zambia. Unlike
it's Oceanic cousin, Kongamto doesn't produce light.

Culprits:

Misidentification is the main arguement. Africa and New Guinea have
high levels of avian biodiversity. Large birds like storks, herons, and eagles
could easily be mistaken. Bats, even ones of cryptid sizes can be mistaken for
pterosaurs. Ropen's light could be mistaken for stars or planes.

11 comments:

Anonymous
said...

Where I live in norther australia, I see eagle rays( stingray family) all the time they can leap up to several meters out of the water, in summer when the bioluminesece is up in the water , they look exactly like a pterodactly cruising through the water

I am in North Georgia, As unlikelyas it may sound I have seen 3 in thepast 3 years. The most recent sighting was 2 days ago on Dec. 9th2012 There were two others with mewho saw it too. It was what lookedto be a young Pterosaur. What makesthis even more interesting is the fact that I saw 2 adults flying together along almost the same flight path back in 2010. This most recent sighting has led me to begin a full out attempt to prove their extence. I am hoping to put together an expedition into the back-country to find nesting sites(which are obviously there) to bringback evidence so that mainstream science will have to except the fact that they are real.

I expect them to have the ability to enter water to go after fish. this suggests that a nest will be close to a decent lake with ample fish. They will also be active nocturnally and that can be early evening or early morning. That does not narrow it down much but you may be surprised to locate locals with knowledge. No one knows were to go with this right now.

There is a large body of water here,it is a flooded river valley that haslots of coves and branches, it isstocked with fish. Something ismaking them desperate enough to flyin the day-time though, it's notvery often but what do you think thiscould be ? If they are nocturnal innature, then it must be for a reallygood reason they are taking this chance. Also, does it sound rightthat they would nest in caves ? Most hunters don't usually get tooexcited about entering caves do tothe bear population in our area, itwould be possible for them to stay somewhat hidden from us, what everthe case, they are here in this area and there is no doubt, giventhat, there is edidence to be found.

They will want their eggs to be protected from snakes and rodents. normally one would expect a cliff ledge, but then they would have been spotted a long time ago. Perhaps a small cave up a cliff? They may even be able to make underwater dens like alligators although that seems unlikely. Been natural gliders, they should look for altitude or natural warm thermals nearby. Try looking for positive airflow at night around a cliff face.

Do you know of anyone that I couldactually speak to that has looked ?Forgive me if you have, I am justso intent on finding people to talkwith on what I know that I may nothave done my research on the actual people. The advice you gave in your last post seems sound, given someof the other comments I have receivedon a couple other sites, this is avery welcomed thing. There seems to be not much to speak of on-lineof an intelligent nature when it comes to this subject, I have beentrying to siftt through the rubbageof insanity that appears to be sowide-spread that it is a scary.Thank you for your replies, I lookforward to any additional thoughtsyou may have on this subject matter

No one is collecting reports yet so an observer has no place to go. However, your search area is an excellent place to start by going to the local papers to see if they have much.

while you are at it, your country is an excellent place to locate giant sloths. Look for reports of a large creature that is not a bear and not a bigfoot. It can smell like a cadaver and has long claws which will make odd tracks different from a bear. It will have a resident hunting range and be careful and look up in the trees.

This is real, I can't believe thatI can't get any moore interst in thissubject matter than this. I havejust spoken to Steven Holland, he isofcourse not the right peoson in these regards, but thought he mightbe able to point me in a general direction of others to try to contact. He suggested David SchwimmerI left a post on a video he made butdon't expect much, do you know of him

do not worry. You are at the beginning of this exercise and finding other witnesses and supporters is a challenge. The good news is that you know what you saw. Try talking to the handful of other observers out there and interview them in the same way as BFRO does its witnesses. this eliminates the fools and establishes a secure data base.

Although I believe pterosaurs are real, are not not extinct, the image at the top of the page is Photoshopped. Everything in the image is crystal clear except for the animal. The argument could be made that obviously it's blurry because it's moving. However, with a photo like this, one would expect even a small part of the animal to be in focus. Also, the "water scrape" has a border on it to the right, which indicates fallacy.

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